As notified in the previous thread, we have been hard at work for the past two weeks to solve the ongoing issues with the server. No doubt you have noticed the recent forum crash that rendered it unusable for several hours.
Good news is, this is all about to be solved. The migration of the web components is already underway and the developer repository has been the first piece to be migrated this weekend, with everything else following this week.
We took some time to check out the available offers for windows compatible servers for the game server and compare them. Among things, we took into account network stability and availability as a determining criteria. We now have a pick.
The specs of the new server are the following:
- CPU: Intel® Xeon® E3 1245 v5 4 C / 8T @3.5 Ghz (Boost @3.9Ghz)
- Memory: 32 GB DDR4 ECC
- Storage: 3 × 250 GB SSD
- Network: Premium 500 Mbit/s minimum
The current server is set to expire in early november, so we're looking to have everything migrated and running before we hit that deadline. As such, we're now launching a new donation drive.
This server cost approximately 55$ per month, which is cheaper than the current 85$ of OVH. The hardware is superior as well. With this upgrade and some good fine-tuning in FLHook we should have way less load issues in large group events. With these issues gone and disk space not being an issue anymore, several projects will be restarted as well. All in all, it's good stuff.
Unfortunately this good stuff comes at a cost. As we are going for a quality server, we have 60€ of setup fees to pay. This means our initial payment all-combined will be of ~120$. The widget has been adjusted to reflect that initial payment and we will need your help to make it. Any further donation beyond the initial 120$ is more than welcome as it reduces the amount of donation drives we have to set up. We highly recommend the usage of the paypal donation widget located in the sidebar, however if you are unable to use it, you can still directly donate to discoverygcserver@gmail.com.
